INDIA: The Uncertain Bellwether

In a Paris hotel one sunny morning in 1926, a serious-minded young Hindu
aristocrat took upon himself a delicate task. Resolutely he squared his
slim shoulders and summoned out onto the balcony his younger sister, a
lively 19-year-old who, under his watchful eye, was getting her first
taste of life in Europe. "Darling," he began, "you go out alone with a
lot of young men. That is as it should be, but
I hope you know all about everythinger, you know, erI suppose every
girl must know, dash it all."